http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stephenmoran/willesden-herald-new-short-stories-7.
Steve
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 7
I'm launching a Kickstarter project to raise funding for the new book. I don't think I need to tell you how great the stories are, how wonderful, because anything I say cannot add one bit to that; they just are. It's not just money for nothing, you get the book, with your name acknowledged in the front, and/or you can get a Willesden Herald mug inscribed "I helped publish New Short Stories 7". Thirty days to raise £800, half for the rewards, half for the publication. All the details are here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stephenmoran/willesden-herald-new-short-stories-7.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stephenmoran/willesden-herald-new-short-stories-7.
Sunday, March 03, 2013
And the mug goes to...
The winning story in the international Willesden Herald short story competition 2013, as chosen by David Means is:
"Holidaying with the Megarrys" by Danielle McLaughlin.
Equal runners-up, are:
"All Its Little Sounds and Silences" by Barnaby Walsh
"Round Fat Moon and Jingling Stars" by Marie Murphy
First prize is a one-off Willesden Herald mug, inscribed "The Willesden Short Story Prize 2013" and £300. The runners-up each receive £150.
The prizes also include five copies of the anthology to each of the ten short-listed writers. You can read all the stories in New Short Stories 7, coming soon. Thanks once again to everyone who entered and to everyone who supported the competition over the years, especially this year's judge, David Means.
If you would like a masterclass in short story writing, David Means will be leading WordTheatre Writers’ Workshop & Retreat on July 5-July 12, 2013 in Edale, England. For availability and full information, please see
http://wordtheatre.com/writersretreat/Home.html.
More: Short list and author bio's
"Holidaying with the Megarrys" by Danielle McLaughlin.
Equal runners-up, are:
"All Its Little Sounds and Silences" by Barnaby Walsh
"Round Fat Moon and Jingling Stars" by Marie Murphy
First prize is a one-off Willesden Herald mug, inscribed "The Willesden Short Story Prize 2013" and £300. The runners-up each receive £150.
The prizes also include five copies of the anthology to each of the ten short-listed writers. You can read all the stories in New Short Stories 7, coming soon. Thanks once again to everyone who entered and to everyone who supported the competition over the years, especially this year's judge, David Means.
If you would like a masterclass in short story writing, David Means will be leading WordTheatre Writers’ Workshop & Retreat on July 5-July 12, 2013 in Edale, England. For availability and full information, please see
http://wordtheatre.com/writersretreat/Home.html.
More: Short list and author bio's
Announcement: Short list for the 2012-13 Willesden prize
White smoke has been seen rising from the special chimney on Herald House. Thanks to each and every one who entered for the 340 stories you sent in, each one a work of art. The full results, as judged by David Means, will be announced shortly. Meanwhile, here is the short list for the international Willesden Herald short story competition 2012/13.
All Its Little Sounds and Silences – by Barnaby Walsh
Bolt – by Thomas Morris
Dance Class – by SJ Bradley
Donor – by Nici West
The Gift – by Alistair Daniel
Hangman – by Angela Sherlock
Holidaying with the Megarrys – by Danielle McLaughlin
Last Payment – by Anna Lewis
Rip – by Merryn Glover
Round Fat Moon and Jingling Stars – by Marie Murphy
About the Authors
SJ Bradley is a writer from Yorkshire. Her work has been published in various magazines and anthologies, and she was one of Untitled Books’ New Voices of 2011. She is one of the organising party behind Leeds-based DIY writers’ night Fictions of Every Kind, a venture which aims to give support and encouragement to anyone engaged in the lonely act of writing. Her work as a letterpress printer involves keeping the old skills of letterpress alive through practise and salvage. She lives with her partner and cat.
Alistair Daniel lives in Liverpool and teaches creative writing for the Open University. He was short-listed for the 2010 Bridport Prize and his short stories have been published in Narrative, Stand, Untitled Books, The Irish Times and The Stinging Fly. He is completing his first novel, supported by the Arts Council and a Charles Pick Fellowship from the University of East Anglia.
Merryn Glover is Australian, grew up in Nepal, India and Pakistan, and now lives in the Highlands of Scotland. She writes both stories and plays, with work broadcast on Radio 4 and published in a range of journals and newspapers including The Edinburgh Review, Wasafiri and The Guardian. She has recently completed her first novel, set in India.
Anna Lewis was born in 1984. In 2010 she won the Orange/Harper's Bazaar short story competition, and in 2011 was selected by the Hay Festival to take part in the Scritture Giovani short story project. Her debut poetry collection, Other Harbours, was published by Parthian in 2012.
Danielle McLaughlin lives in County Cork, Ireland. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Long Story Short, The Burning Bush 2, The Stinging Fly, Inktears, Southword, Boyne Berries, Crannóg, Hollybough, on the RTE TEN website, on RTE Radio and in various anthologies. She has won a number of prizes for short fiction including The Writing Spirit Award for Fiction 2010, the From the Well Short Story Competition 2012 and the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition 2012.
Thomas Morris is from Caerphilly, South Wales. He has previously published short fiction in The Irish Times, The Moth, and ETO. In 2012, he received an Emerging Artist Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. Currently enrolled in the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia, Thomas is working on a collection of short stories set in Caerphilly, and a novel, Second Best: The Diaries of a Substitute Goalkeeper.
Marie Murphy began to write full-time three years ago. In 2012, she was a finalist in the Novel Fair run by The Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin. Also in 2012 she was long-listed for the Power’s Short Story Competition. Marie grew up on a farm in north Cork but has worked in England, France and Ireland (chambermaid, waitress, cook, cleaner, lady’s companion, nurse’s assistant.) On qualifying from University College, Cork, (B.A. H. Dip. Ed.) she taught in England and Ireland. Married with three children, she lives in the country in west Cork where she is currently working on a novel of connected short stories.
Angela Sherlock has worked in engineering and in education but now lives in Devon where she writes full time. She has published reviews and articles but now concentrates on fiction. Her first novel, The Apple Castle, (as yet unpublished) was long-listed for the Virginia Prize and short-listed for the Hookline Novel Writing Competition. She has published some short stories and is currently working on a novel that draws on the history of Plymouth. Hangman, her second story to be short-listed by Willesden Herald is from her collection, Exports, which explores the Irish Diaspora.
Nici West likes to write short stories and is tying her brain in knots trying to write a novel. She was born in Essex and is making her way up North, currently living in Manchester. She recently completed an MA in Creative Writing from The University of Manchester and spends her days writing, looking after two guinea pigs and producing literature projects.
Barnaby Walsh originally studied theoretical physics by mistake, but recently completed his master's in creative writing at the University of Manchester. He lives up north, in Bolton.
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Update: And the mug goes to...
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All Its Little Sounds and Silences – by Barnaby Walsh
Bolt – by Thomas Morris
Dance Class – by SJ Bradley
Donor – by Nici West
The Gift – by Alistair Daniel
Hangman – by Angela Sherlock
Holidaying with the Megarrys – by Danielle McLaughlin
Last Payment – by Anna Lewis
Rip – by Merryn Glover
Round Fat Moon and Jingling Stars – by Marie Murphy
About the Authors
SJ Bradley is a writer from Yorkshire. Her work has been published in various magazines and anthologies, and she was one of Untitled Books’ New Voices of 2011. She is one of the organising party behind Leeds-based DIY writers’ night Fictions of Every Kind, a venture which aims to give support and encouragement to anyone engaged in the lonely act of writing. Her work as a letterpress printer involves keeping the old skills of letterpress alive through practise and salvage. She lives with her partner and cat.
Alistair Daniel lives in Liverpool and teaches creative writing for the Open University. He was short-listed for the 2010 Bridport Prize and his short stories have been published in Narrative, Stand, Untitled Books, The Irish Times and The Stinging Fly. He is completing his first novel, supported by the Arts Council and a Charles Pick Fellowship from the University of East Anglia.
Merryn Glover is Australian, grew up in Nepal, India and Pakistan, and now lives in the Highlands of Scotland. She writes both stories and plays, with work broadcast on Radio 4 and published in a range of journals and newspapers including The Edinburgh Review, Wasafiri and The Guardian. She has recently completed her first novel, set in India.
Anna Lewis was born in 1984. In 2010 she won the Orange/Harper's Bazaar short story competition, and in 2011 was selected by the Hay Festival to take part in the Scritture Giovani short story project. Her debut poetry collection, Other Harbours, was published by Parthian in 2012.
Danielle McLaughlin lives in County Cork, Ireland. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Long Story Short, The Burning Bush 2, The Stinging Fly, Inktears, Southword, Boyne Berries, Crannóg, Hollybough, on the RTE TEN website, on RTE Radio and in various anthologies. She has won a number of prizes for short fiction including The Writing Spirit Award for Fiction 2010, the From the Well Short Story Competition 2012 and the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition 2012.
Thomas Morris is from Caerphilly, South Wales. He has previously published short fiction in The Irish Times, The Moth, and ETO. In 2012, he received an Emerging Artist Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. Currently enrolled in the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia, Thomas is working on a collection of short stories set in Caerphilly, and a novel, Second Best: The Diaries of a Substitute Goalkeeper.
Marie Murphy began to write full-time three years ago. In 2012, she was a finalist in the Novel Fair run by The Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin. Also in 2012 she was long-listed for the Power’s Short Story Competition. Marie grew up on a farm in north Cork but has worked in England, France and Ireland (chambermaid, waitress, cook, cleaner, lady’s companion, nurse’s assistant.) On qualifying from University College, Cork, (B.A. H. Dip. Ed.) she taught in England and Ireland. Married with three children, she lives in the country in west Cork where she is currently working on a novel of connected short stories.
Angela Sherlock has worked in engineering and in education but now lives in Devon where she writes full time. She has published reviews and articles but now concentrates on fiction. Her first novel, The Apple Castle, (as yet unpublished) was long-listed for the Virginia Prize and short-listed for the Hookline Novel Writing Competition. She has published some short stories and is currently working on a novel that draws on the history of Plymouth. Hangman, her second story to be short-listed by Willesden Herald is from her collection, Exports, which explores the Irish Diaspora.
Nici West likes to write short stories and is tying her brain in knots trying to write a novel. She was born in Essex and is making her way up North, currently living in Manchester. She recently completed an MA in Creative Writing from The University of Manchester and spends her days writing, looking after two guinea pigs and producing literature projects.
Barnaby Walsh originally studied theoretical physics by mistake, but recently completed his master's in creative writing at the University of Manchester. He lives up north, in Bolton.
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Update: And the mug goes to...
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Friday, March 01, 2013
Murder will out
Well done Bradley Manning for exposing this atrocity. Shame on everyone else involved.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Tildavid
Nobody can ever again say "You never see David Bowie and Tilda Swinton together, do you?" More about this new video in Guardian Online today: The Stars (Are Out Tonight).
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso - Saent Saens
From Lincoln Center with Maestro Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic
Joshua Bell plays Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor Op. 28 by Camille Saent Saens.
Exhilarating and amazing
Monday, February 18, 2013
Never mind the Papal election
Fred is here with the special chimney and the three-part ladder. I'm really worried about him because he was so shaky when I gave him the usual mug of tea before starting. The tea was sloshing everywhere. "Are you sure you're okay to go up there?" I asked him. "Right," said Fred. His hearing is gone as well. Anyway, the cardinals will have to wait. We had dibs on Fred's special chimney rental first.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Sparkly new website
The New Short Stories website has had a makeover, ready for the seventh anthology. There's a bit of a contretemps with the Pope resigning, as the special chimney will now be needed in Rome. Fred is all in a tizz because he does that one as well. Who knew!?
Monday, February 11, 2013
A new song by Nick Cave
Enigmatic and atmospheric. Ray Winstone is in the video. There is another strange song called "Finishing Jubilee Street" on the new album "Push the Sky". It starts: "I'd just finished writing Jubilee Street. / I fell into a very deep sleep. / And when I awoke I believed / I had taken a bride named Mary Stanford." This, as if it were needed, which it's not, seems to signify Jubilee Street as a significant composition.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Water is life...
I hate it when... people love the video and cry their eyes out but don't visit the link and contribute to the charity. Water is Life
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
A gift taken back
February update – Perfidious Oxford? | Save Kensal Rise Library!
The latest twist in the story of how the generosity of an Oxford College at the turn of the 20th century is being undone by the meanness of their 21st century moneygrabbing descendants, with the collusion of Brent Labour council and the Tory LibDem government. Make no mistake, they are all as bad as each other. It's the local people, ordinary people, versus politicians and greedy sods with sinecures.
The latest twist in the story of how the generosity of an Oxford College at the turn of the 20th century is being undone by the meanness of their 21st century moneygrabbing descendants, with the collusion of Brent Labour council and the Tory LibDem government. Make no mistake, they are all as bad as each other. It's the local people, ordinary people, versus politicians and greedy sods with sinecures.
Monday, February 04, 2013
A new short story by Zadie Smith
“The Embassy of Cambodia” - The New Yorker
When the Embassy of Cambodia first appeared in our midst, a few years ago, some of us said, “Well, if we were poets perhaps we could have written some sort of an ode about this surprising appearance of the embassy.”
When the Embassy of Cambodia first appeared in our midst, a few years ago, some of us said, “Well, if we were poets perhaps we could have written some sort of an ode about this surprising appearance of the embassy.”
Friday, January 25, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Comment
Whitby church under threat from landslips*
The church, brained by Henry,
crazy, incontinent cliffhanger,
stares catatonic out to sea,
while its footing, undermined,
falls away, clean bones and all,
into Fortune's Kippers.
Crestfallen and bitter, our vicar
transplants the dearly departed
and prays to God, perhaps,
then calls a civil engineer.
--
Stephen Moran
* This graveyard erosion was already a worry in the 19th century, in the time of Dracula, no less, according to Bram Stoker's novel. Whitby is where that nosferatu landed in Blighty, and plenty of the narrative unfolds in the churchyard at Whitby.
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Where are we now?
David Bowie's first new song for ten years. Film by Tony Oursler
"Had to get the train from Potsdamer Platz. You never knew that. That I could do that. Just walking the dead. Sitting in the dschungel on Nürnberger Strasse, a man lost in time near KaDeWe. Just walking the dead. ..."
Saturday, January 05, 2013
Phone booths
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| West |
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| East |
The phone booths beside the Willesden Green library centre with flyers and business cards left by pimps.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Signs of the times
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| Empty bookshop, empty bellies? |
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| Duelling planning applications: one to redevelop "the piazza", the other to designate it "a village green" |
Friday, December 21, 2012
Can't wait for the Chilcot report?
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| Life and War with MF Delgado |
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Last call for short stories
Don't know if the world will end tomorrow but it's the closing date for entries to the annual short story gala. If you want the one-off mug, inscribed "The Willesden Short Story Prize 2013", plus money, publication and last but least, immortality, here is how to enter.
Saturday, December 08, 2012
Friday, December 07, 2012
Monday, December 03, 2012
Competition update, end of November 2012
Jenny Barden's novel Mistress of the Sea has been published by Ebury Press in hardback, with the paperback to follow. The word is it has been a runaway success in bookstores, including at Heathrow airport. Jenny's story "Propitiation" in New Short Stories 3 was an excerpt from her then work in progress.
Brian Coleman, whose emotional story The Bedroom was included in New Short Stories 5, has published a collection of his stories called Bright Ripples in a Dark Pool for Amazon Kindle.
Steve Moran has done an interview for Duotrope's listing of the Willesden Herald competition. You might not be able to read it after December, as they have announced that starting from January 2013, there will be a membership fee to access their literary markets database in full.
The rate of entries coming in has gathered pace but we still need a lot more, so please round them up, haul them in, keep them doggies rolling. And. That.
Brian Coleman, whose emotional story The Bedroom was included in New Short Stories 5, has published a collection of his stories called Bright Ripples in a Dark Pool for Amazon Kindle.
Steve Moran has done an interview for Duotrope's listing of the Willesden Herald competition. You might not be able to read it after December, as they have announced that starting from January 2013, there will be a membership fee to access their literary markets database in full.
The rate of entries coming in has gathered pace but we still need a lot more, so please round them up, haul them in, keep them doggies rolling. And. That.
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